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Jews Everywhere Praying for HaRav Eliashiv's Recovery
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

In Torah halls and everywhere a concentration of yirei'im ledevar Hashem can be found, numerous tefillos are being held for the speedy recovery of Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, shlita, in a united effort to stir rachamei Shomayim for Rabbenu Yosef Sholom ben Chayoh Musha.

Special prayers were recited at yeshivas and heichalei Torah everywhere, even during Shabbos itself. Although HaRav Eliashiv was fully conscious on Shabbos, reciting all of the tefillos, eating the Shabbos meals and learning Torah, doctors say his state of health is precarious. As such the public is being asked to pray for Heavenly mercy and to cry out in tefilloh for the recuperation of Rabbenu, the godol hador, who all of Beis Yisroel rely on.

Friday evening, shortly before candlelighting time, HaRav Eliashiv felt ill and, after consulting with a doctor, it was decided to rush him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit and is being treated by the hospital's top experts.

Maran's medical condition is stable but his doctors say that as long as his present condition continues without improvement he remains in serious danger. Therefore the public must bolster its supplications and prayers until he merits a full recovery.

News of HaRav Eliashiv's serious condition spread throughout the Torah world in Eretz Yisroel and abroad, filling hearts with dread and inspiring prayers to open the Gates of Heaven and to bring Beis Yisroel's cry to the Borei Olom, that He may take pity upon His people and send a refuah sheleimoh and robust health to Maran HaRav Eliashiv.

Late motzei Shabbos thousands gathered at the Kosel Maarovi and on Sunday a large gathering was held at the gravesite of Rabbenu Hagodol Maran HaRav Shach zt'l, where the recitation of chapters of Tehillim, the Thirteen Attributes, Shema Yisroel and Hashem Hu HaElokim were led by HaRav Shmuel Yaakov Burnstein, one of the roshei yeshivos of Yeshivas Chevron Geula. In a voice choked with tears he then offered divrei his'orerus, saying we are asking that the holy Torah beseech Hashem, coming before Kisei Hakovod to plead for the recovery of godol hador and sar haTorah, the greatest lover of Torah of our generation.

HaRav Yosef Tzvi HaLevi Dunner, one of the elder sages among European rabbonim and ravad of the Union of Chareidi Communities in London, issued a notice on Sunday addressed to bnei Torah in Europe saying this is an "eis tzoro for Yaakov" and therefore the entire tzibbur must "cry out and plead for the remnants of pleitas sofreinu and to grow stronger in milei deShmaya, so that he may continue to shine the light of his holy Torah learning upon us as well as his pure spirit in the way it is passed down, until the arrival of the Goel Tzedek."

The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of the US issued a call to the entire Torah world to hold tefillas rabbim for HaRav Eliashiv's recovery.

 

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